Let's face it, it's absolutely shocking out there, morally wrong. IMO government policy since 2011 has been to foster the current situation in order to refinance the banks through the back door. And Labour most shockingly enabled this until this year.

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Councils already have sufficient CPO powers in my opinion, simply use them and provide the funding. Reading the Dail debate yesterday re latest planning bill yet again this stuff was trotted out 'on advice of attorney general ... 2019. This sage advice should be published so we can all understand.

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Councils already have sufficient CPO powers in my opinion, simply use them and provide the funding. Reading the Dail debate yesterday re latest planning bill yet again this stuff was trotted out 'on advice of attorney general ... 2019. This sage advice should be published so we can all understand.

If the rent and homeless crises affected the politicians we'd see Dail emergency sessions and emergency legislation. This "nothing to do with me" act will eventually bite Kenny where he sits. As of now he'll be remembered as the Taoiseach who oversaw the advent of the Sheriff and the smashed hall door.

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If the rent and homeless crises affected the politicians we'd see Dail emergency sessions and emergency legislation. This "nothing to do with me" act will eventually bite Kenny where he sits. As of now he'll be remembered as the Taoiseach who oversaw the advent of the Sheriff and the smashed hall door.

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I said "specifically". By your logic, the all-encroaching "common good" could entitle the State to take single people's houses from them and give them to homeless families, and stick the single people into apartment blocks in the middle of nowhere. If you're proposing constitutional change it has to be specific, not waffly nonsense that could be interpreted any way in the world.

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